Yes, 100%, but John and other authors are very specific about whether something is literal or not. When John says he saw something "like unto" something else, then that was his best guess as to how to describe it, but you can't take that to an extreme and say oh well then John didn't actually mean what he said and it's to be interpreted any way we want.
Yes, 100%, but John and other authors are very specific about whether something is literal or not. When John says he saw something "like unto" something else, then that was his best guess as to how to describe it, but you can't take that to an extreme and say oh well then John didn't actually mean what he said and it's to be interpreted any way we want.